Doug Hoekstra’s third book, a collection of published and unpublished poems titled Unopened will hit the streets February 5, 2019. The book also features Hoekstra’s original artwork. Publicity will be handled by the Nashville-based JKS Communications. More details on this site and elsewhere, as they happen.
Category Archives: Writing
Reading Moby Dick
DONE Ah, the great white whale…finally slayed. All my life I’ve been a wordsmith, writing songs, stories, poems, essays, teaching English Composition, and working as a grant writer. My B.A. was in English/Creative Writing; my M.Ed. in English/education. But, I have a couple of confessions to make. First off, I don’t think words are endContinueContinue reading “Reading Moby Dick”
Performance Art
Happy to debut a new short story, “Performance Art,” published this month at Trampset (“a literary journal for the tramps”). Managed to work in Tony Hillerman, Modest Mouse, and Marlon Brando. But, the idea was to write something in second-person, ala the brilliant Lorrie Moore. My ex-students may remember that exercise….enjoy! https://trampset.org/performance-art-cf1df457c60a
Buk
Hot off the presses, a new poem of mine titled “Buk,” appearing in the June edition of Better than Starbucks – an online/print poetry journal, full of “great books, sharp wit, and great authors.” Enjoy! https://www.betterthanstarbucks.org/poetry-free-verse
Innovation (Sedoka)
A couple years ago, I stumbled across a book of poems by Ryokan, a Zen Monk poet from Japan (1758-1831). He was fond of writing sedokas. Googling will tell you that “the sedōka, or “head-repeated poem,” consists of two tercets of five, seven, and seven syllables each. An uncommon form, it was sometimes used forContinueContinue reading “Innovation (Sedoka)”
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